Orchid

Posted on August 4, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, cataract, Choir, Flowers, Growing, Orchids, Rain, Shower, Singing, Weather1 Comment

I didn’t notice but one of my orchids has flowered. Not a good photo, lots of camera shake. You can just see there are a few lower buds yet to open.

Today I got soaked walking 100 yards to choir practice. I can’t drive and I struggle to manage with a walking stick and a brolly, so I left it behind It was drizzling when I went out but it came down heavy as I walked along. So much so it was raining into my eyes. I was told not to get water in my eye that had been operated on. I avoided doing it in the shower but unfortunately the weather got the better of me. Still I have antibiotic eye drops to put in.

Which reminds me I’d better water the orchids.

Cactii

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cactii cactuses, dry, Growing, healthy. Poem, Life, Poetry, spiky, sunny window ledge, thriving, WateringLeave a comment

Celebrate cactii

They just don’t die

Easily anyway

Not too thirsty

Find the balance

Wet or dry?

Keep them happy

They’ll thrive

The garden

Posted on July 13, 2025July 13, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged baskets, Birthday, Garden, Growing, one month, Plants, Shaded, summer sun, Yard1 Comment

Is growing, there are tomatoes although the plants are wilting. This was my birthday present to myself. I’m glad the neighbours have put up a fence, it shelters the yard from the sun.

Some plants still need sorting out. Hopefully soon with help front friends. X

This was planted up just a month ago. There are old plants mixed in….

Peaches

Posted on September 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dorothy Clive garden, espaliered, Fruit, Gardening, Growing, Juicy, Memory, peaches, Photo, SummerLeave a comment

Peachs on a bush. This was an espaliered bush where the branches are held against the wall horizontally. This allows the fruit to set on the branches and grow bigger and more juicy as the summer goes on. The photo was taken at the Dorothy Clive garden n the Staffordshire countryside. I would have loved to have tasted one of them.

I’ve never had one

Posted on September 2, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2049, Garden, Growing, Home, ideal, Nature, owning, Prompt, renting, TimeLeave a comment

What does your ideal home look like?

I don’t live in an expensive, ideal house. This is next door. Mine is in better repair, but it’s an old house built in the 1900s. It’s been changed so that it has a bathroom/kitchen extention. It took years to buy because we previously rented.

Someone suggested to me recently that I should downsize. To that ideal home the prompt asks about? But why should I? Unless my health deteriorates further. I know where I am. I have a large garden at the side of the house. It’s full of nature, an old pond, trees, squirrels, hedgehogs. Why do I want someone to buy the house and rip it apart. If I ever find the money I would repair and restore it. I guess that’s my ideal home. Maybe with a stair lift and storage for my art?

Buddliea outside

Posted on July 24, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Branches, Buddliea, Flowers, Gardening, Growing, Life, Plant, White, Window, window paneLeave a comment

I have a huge buddliea bush that has grown upwards and has reached outside the upstairs landing window. The bush hasn’t been pruned as it grows huge bracts of white flowers which butterflies love. The flowers are pressing against the window pane, starting to go over now. I really need to get it cut back. My garden is full of big plants that have overgrown too much. I guess my green fingers must be working too well? I hope it means my carbon footprint is quite low.

Wildflowers in Stoke

Posted on July 1, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Green men, Growing, Life, Pavement, Plants, Stoke-on trent, weedkiller, wildflowerLeave a comment

Wildflowers, on the pavement, Stoke. I can almost see green men in this duplicated image.

There are wildflowers springing up everywhere on pavements. I guess the local council aren’t spraying weeds like they used to. Hopefully the bees are enjoying these bonus flowers.

Spleen wort identified.

Posted on June 24, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fern, Growing, identified, Learning, Life, Photo, Plant, spleen wort, Wall, Wikipedia4 Comments

Asplenium trichomanes, the maidenhair spleenwort, is a small fern in the spleenwort genus Asplenium. It is a widespread and common species, occurring almost worldwide in a variety of rocky habitats. It is a variable fern with several subspecies. The specific epithet trichomanes refers to a Greek word for fern.… Wikipedia

Scientific nameAsplenium trichomanes

Have you seen the little camera sign on your phone? I’ve only just found out about it. It’s on the top right of the Google search bar. I guess there are similar tools on other search engines and I am not advocating you use any of them. It is good to use something to identify things like plants. I saw this growing out of a wall today and I wanted to know what it was as I have different ferns growing out of my yard wall. I’m glad to extend my knowledge.

Sad marigolds

Posted on June 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Gardening, Growing, June, Life, marigolds, Plants, Rain, seasons, Spring, Summer, Weeds4 Comments

Marigolds in a bag, something seems to have broken the flowers off. I’ve got to get them planted but yesterday the rain fall was stupendous. Today the weather was better, but I am very tired. Tomorrow could be the day they get planted. Meanwhile, the forecast is for more rain and cold winds coming from the north. June seems to be below par for the time of year. But I’m determined to get my garden looking good instead of full of overgrown weeds!

Tulips

Posted on April 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged effort, Garden, Growing, Growth, Memories, Photo, Spring, Time, Tired, Tulip, WorkLeave a comment

Last years tulips were beautiful. We had seven or eight in the pots outside our house, sadly this year I only had two. I haven’t got on top of gardening because of everything that’s been happening and I will regret not being able to keep up with the seasons. I’m going to try and make more of an effort, a bit at a time, give myself rests in between spells of gardening. It might take a while and I need to try and put the effort in

Mallaband-Brown

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